Immigration a World Movement And Its American Significance
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Hunt, Milton B. , "The Hous- ing of Non-Family Groups of Men in Chicago, " Am. Jour, of Soc, i6 : 145. THE STANDARD OF LIVING 249 that these conditions are not in all cases due to the choice of the immigrant, or to the lack of desire for better things on his part. Whether they are not, to a large degree, actually due to the presence of the immigrant in this country is quite another matter, upon the decision of which must rest much of the final judgment as to the desirability of immigration unde...r the present system. Throughout the study of housing conditions among the foreign-born, it becomes more and more evident that there is a marked distinction not only between the homes of the native-born and the foreign-born, but between those of the older and newer immigrants. By what- ever test the standards of each class are measured, there is almost invariably a decided discrepancy in favor of the older races. As regards the number of rooms per apart- ment, the size of households, the number of persons per room, the number of boarders, the care and upkeep of the apartment, the EngHsh, Scandinavians, Germans, and Irish come much nearer to what might be considered a reasonable American standard than do the Italians, either north or south, the Slavs (except perhaps the Bohemians and Moravians), the Greeks, Syrians, Bulgarians, etc.
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